This paper employs new data on the use by patentees of continuation applications in the United States from 1975-2002 to shed light on patentees' motivations for and actual uses of the continuation application procedure, a ...

This paper examines firms’ uses of secrecy and patenting in order to explore three elementary questions of firm intellectual property strategy: First, are there complementarities between patenting and secrecy that firms ...

At least since Arrow (1962), economists have believed that strong property rights are necessary for firms to invest in innovation. This belief was a key principle underlying the Bayh-Dole Act, which gave universities the ...